Army Specialist Nicolas Laboy is looking to make a career in the IT field and is getting some training in that area from the Army. Laboy expects to fully recover from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident this past summer.

Army Specialist Nicolas Laboy is looking to make a career in the IT field and is getting some training in that area from the Army. Laboy expects to fully recover from injuries he sustained in a motorcycle accident this past summer. (Jon Langham, Chicago Tribune)

Nicolas Laboy, 22 and a Plainfield East graduate, had been struck by a pickup truck just after 7:30 a.m.. The July 3 crash left him in a medically induced coma and a list of serious injuries. But the Bolingbrook man said it would have been worse without two things: his helmet and his laptop.